Jones v. Commonwealth
Supreme Court of Virginia
This was an indictment in the Circuit court of the county of Powhatan against Randolph Jones, a freedman, for stealing six hogs, the property of Blair Burwell. On the trial the prisoner was found guilty, and the term of his imprisonment in the penitentiary was fixed at three years. He thereupon moved the court for a new trial, on the ground that the verdict was contrary to the evidence; hut the court overruled the motion, and rendered a judgment upon the verdict.
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This was an indictment in the Circuit court of the county of Powhatan against Randolph Jones, a freedman, for stealing six hogs, the property of Blair Burwell. On the trial the prisoner was found guilty, and the term of his imprisonment in the penitentiary was fixed at three years. He thereupon moved the court for a new trial, on the ground that the verdict was contrary to the evidence; hut the court overruled the motion, and rendered a judgment upon the verdict. The prisoner excepted to the opinion of the court overruling the motion, and the court having certified the facts proved, he…
1Opinion of the Court
Moncure, P.
delivered the opinion of the court:
The court is of opinion that while the facts certified may be sufficient to raise a strong suspicion that a part of the meat found in the possession of the prisoner or his wife was stolen property, they do not identify it as part of the hogs supposed to have been stolen from Blair Bur-well ; but on the contrary tend to show that it was not a part of the said hogs; and that the Circuit court therefore erred in overruling the prisoner’s motion for a new trial: Therefore it is considered that the said judgment be reversed and annulled. And this court…
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